Blues Rock
Blues rock blends the chord patterns and guitar style of the blues with the volume and drive of rock.
It emerged in the early 1960s in Britain and the United States, when young bands played electric Chicago blues louder and faster. Songs are often built on the twelve-bar blues, with long improvised guitar solos and a rough, soulful vocal. It is the direct root of hard rock and heavy metal, and stays closer to the blues than either.
Artists it is known for: Cream, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, The Black Keys.
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- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom and United States, early 1960s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have blues rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Blues Rock artists
Queens of the Stone Age
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jimi Hendrix
The Black Keys
Eric Clapton
ZZ Top
The Who
Deep Purple
The White Stripes
Santana
The blues rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.